What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.

Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

And anyway, life's too short.